Sara Paretsky Quotes

Rule number something or other -- never tell anybody anything unless you're going to get something better in return.

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• I wrote for so many years in a bubble, the way everyone does, and there were large swaths of time where you think you're doing this for nothing. An audience is crucial, a back and forth with the invisible readers.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Time
  • Think
  • Doing

• You don't have to be something to do something.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • You
  • Something

• I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.

  

  Damien Rice
  • Want
  • Stage
  • Flow

• There wasn't really a song or artist that made me want to be a singer, I think I was always a fan of country music.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Music
  • Country
  • Song

• I get people being frightened of me. One time I did this photo shoot where I had hairy armpits – I was really digging it, but they were like, 'We'll airbrush that out.'

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • People
  • Time
  • Frightened

• A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Man
  • Thoughts
  • Product

• I was in an awful lot of trouble in Hollywood.

  

  Eddie Bracken
  • Trouble
  • Hollywood
  • Awful

• Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence.

  

  Vernor Vinge
  • Years
  • Create
  • Intelligence

• My mother is my hero.

  

  J. R. Martinez
  • Mother
  • Hero

• People look at me, they know I've appeared in costume dramas and they automatically assume I must be a Tory, I must be a certain type of person.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • People
  • Person
  • Certain

• Love is just such a crucial, wonderful thing, and if you are lucky enough to find somebody who genuinely loves you, grab that person and hold on to that person, and nothing else matters.

  

  Randall Kennedy
  • Love
  • Lucky
  • Love Is

• I enjoy roles that are quite physical.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Enjoy
  • Roles
  • Physical

• I profoundly feel that people are letting you down all the time.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • People
  • Time
  • Down

• I think it's a human tendency that's been around for a while to try to be as good as possible to prove your worth.

  

  Veronica Roth
  • Good
  • Think
  • Human

• We have grown accustomed to the wonders of clean water, indoor plumbing, laser surgery, genetic engineering, artificial joints, replacement body parts, and the much longer lives that accompany them. Yet we should remember that the vast majority of humans ever born died before the age of 10 from an infectious disease.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Remember
  • Age
  • Water

• Every child saved with my help and the help of all the wonderful secret messengers, who today are no longer living, is the justification of my existence on this earth, and not a title to glory.

  

  Irena Sendler
  • Help
  • Today
  • Earth

• May God so fill us today with the heart of Christ that we may glow with the divine fire of holy desire.

  

  Albert Benjamin Simpson
  • God
  • Heart
  • May

• The Rum Turn Tugger is a terrible bore: When you let him in, then he wants to be out; He's always on the wrong side of every door, And as soon as he's at home, then he'd like to get about.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Home
  • Want
  • Door

• It just … makes serendipity happen more often.

  

  Charlie Jane Anders
  • Happen
  • Often
  • Serendipity

• I try to please people, to give them a good time, but I refuse to make my act conform to traditional show-biz standards of entertainment. There's a little voice that says, 'Oh, no, you can't do that, that's breaking all the rules.' That's the voice of show business. Then this other little voice says, 'Try it.' And most of the time, when the voice comes on and says, 'No,' that's the time it works.

  

  Andy Kaufman
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• I can write songs, but I'm not gonna really feel good about the song unless it feels like me, and I'm not gonna release a song or put it on an album or play it in concert unless it really feels like me.

  

  Brett Dennen
  • Play
  • Feel Good
  • Concert

• You can't stamp on people and not get hurt in return.

  

  Alexei Panshin
  • People
  • Hurt
  • Return

• Rule number something or other -- never tell anybody anything unless you're going to get something better in return.

  

  Sara Paretsky
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